Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Industrial Automation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Niccolò Corsini
Founder, CEO of Logidot
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About Logidot: Logidot is a plug-and-play and high-performance indoor location intelligence platform for warehousing and factory automation.
Shahan Lilja
Cofounder & CEO of Mavenoid
Shahan Lilja is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Mavenoid.
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About Mavenoid: Mavenoid is a troubleshooting software that helps its users to locate malfunctions and provides guidelines on how to fix it.
Martin-Immanuel Bittner
Co-Founder & CEO of Arctoris
Martin-Immanuel Bittner MD DPhil is a clinician-scientist and life sciences entrepreneur. He is a Rhodes scholar, an active member of several leading cancer research organisations, and an elected member of the Young Academy of the German National Academy of Sciences. Martin is a Co-Founder & CEO of Arctoris, the world’s first fully automated drug discovery platform.
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About Arctoris: Arctoris is a tech-enabled platform company in biotechnology, combining robotics & data science to accelerate drug discovery.
Stephanie Locke
CEO of Nightingale HQ
Steph is the founder of Locke Data, a data science consultancy, and Nightingale HQ, an online data strategy management platform. Steph has a decade of experience in insurance, finance, and cybersecurity and her consulting have seen her work across a variety of industries from horse racing to energy. A well-known educator and influencer, Steph is one of 60 Microsoft Most Valued Professionals in the AI space in the world.
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About Locke Data, Microsoft, Nightingale HQ: Helping manufacturers to increase productivity and empower workers with no-code AI-powered tools that eliminate repetitive processes fast
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Kostas Karachalios
Co-Founder and CEO of Perceptual Robotics
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Jamie Potter
CEO & Co Founder of Flexciton
Jamie has led several projects with industrial clients across industrial sectors for clients including National Grid and RWE. Jamie graduated top of his year in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Oxford. Recently, Jamie was added to the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list.
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About Flexciton: Flexciton is an optimisation technology company solving complex scheduling problems in semiconductor wafer fabrication
Chris O’Brien
Co-Founder and CEO of Optial
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About Optial: Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
Owen McCormack
CEO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Nicholas Zylberglajt
Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Life
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Philip Morgan
Chief Executive Officer of Pirum Systems
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About Pirum Systems: Pirum Systems providing advanced, centralised and secure reconciliation services for financial market participants.
David Uram
Founder and CEO of Factory Bucket
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About Factory Bucket: A no-code solutions for the manufacturing industry to automate processes from production to supply chain and everything in between
Gavin Griggs
Chief Executive Officer of XP Power
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About XP Power: XP Power is a developer and manufacturer of critical power control components for the electronics industry.
Haidin Rashid
Co-Founder and CEO of Materialize.X
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About Materialize.X: Data-Driven Directors for Manufacturing
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Paul Egan
CEO of 8power
Paul has enjoyed a long career in wireless technology and IoT. In the early 90s he was part of the initial team at ARM. In the late 90s he joined CSR shortly after its creation, for 10 years playing a key role in design of its Bluetooth ICs, before co-founding LPWAN pioneer Neul in 2010. At Neul, which was acquired by Huawei in 2014, Paul served as VP, Business Development. Before joining 8power, Paul worked as principal consultant at the Digital Catapult starting the IoTUK project.
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About 8power: 8power is a University of Cambridge start-up developing novel technology for sensing and measurement in industrial applications.
Thiago Azevedo
CEO & Founder of ZOA Robotics
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About ZOA Robotics: A Startup developing affordable robots inspired by nature.
Maryna Kuzmenko
CEO of Petiole
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About Petiole: Petiole is global platform for plant phenotyping with smartphone
Simon Eccleston
CEO of Stacking Systems
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About Stacking Systems: Stacking Systems Ltd creates bespoke collating, buffering and stacking systems for automation-wise companies.
Simon Eccleston
CEO of Stacking Systems
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About Stacking Systems: Stacking Systems Ltd creates bespoke collating, buffering and stacking systems for automation-wise companies.
